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https://asterisktom.wordpress.com/2025/04/17/isaiah-651-8-contrast-of-covenants-old-and-new-part-one/ New Life? Or Just a New Leaf? Some commentaries are surprisingly sparse in unpacking what I would see as unmistakable New Testament application, placing – in some cases almost restricting – the...

You are missing the point, the connection between those verses, 1 Cor. 15:47-49. This is then followed up with the application in v. 50, "flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God". The progression of Paul's argument is from "that which is natural", v. 46 to "of the earth, made of...

Thank you very much. It is my wife's family and I just bought plane tickets for tomorrow for South Carolina. Pretty expensive, but these things happen. I agree that the teaching does appear bizarre. But that in itself should not automatically disqualify it from consideration. And, no, I did not...

I wish you would read more carefully what I wrote. I never said that there are no bodies in heaven. There are, but they are spiritual bodies, not physical. I never taught that there are no resurrected bodies. "It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body...

Some students visited us in our apartment on campus. With them we had a better opportunity to share the Gospel. I certainly wasn't going to do it in the classroom, each of them having, as I found out, spies sent from the office.

We have a family emergency just come up so I am not sure when I can get back to this. But I do want to. However I absolutely need to clear one thing up. Christ certainly rose bodily, flesh and blood. If not, our faith is in vain. But that does not mean that Christ has a physical body now. His...

Agreed. I have had ongoing debates with him over the years now. Among other monstrosities Preston does not believe that Christians now have or even need the Holy Spirit in their lives. And it shows in his teaching. I miss some of my students. Best teaching job I ever had. I was told that I must...

If it was years ago then, yes, my view has changed quite a bit. Since that time I have realized that most of full preterism is a form of gnosticism, under the influence of what I call the Pope of Preterism, Don K. Preston. I don't have time to write now, but I probably wrote things I shouldn't...

John, the older I get the more I try to make good use of my efforts. I'm not saying your stupid or anything like that. I am sure you are quite astute in a number of areas. But you just don't understand my Preterism. I don't "make the Lord's coming a 'spiritual' coming in AD 70". It was actually...

This is why I passed on commenting to you, John. Comments like this. I am not the one doubting the book of Revelation. I do doubt your ability (or at least willingness) to consider that maybe the view that you grew up with is not in line with Scripture. Cooper's Golden Rule overrules, for...

It is only church tradition that assumes that those men were disciples of John, or even had met him. Very often these stories are made up to grant authority to later persons and places. Phillip Schaff makes several good comments along these lines. But, more importantly, concerning your second...

What's in a name? A big clue, actually... https://asterisktom.wordpress.com/2021/07/13/the-two-pillars-of-gods-presence/

No, what I'm going to do is ignore you again. I showed you the plain scripture. Not wasting any more time on discussing this with you.

Phil. 1:29: "For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;" Two things were given to the saints here: Faith and suffering. Unless you are going to argue that there is somehow a difference between believing and faith. Or that their...

Who knows? Maybe it will be in the eternal archive for us to know about, I Cor. 13:12.

I probably didn't phrase that right. Let me just say that He doesn't just look into the future (as if He needed to find anything out) but that He knows the future because He controls it.

Yes, He does. It is called omniscience. And He also is the one who gave the faith to begin with, Phil. 1:29, John 1:12-13.

And you can bet that there was more than a nutshell worth in what the Lord told those two disciples. The more you read the Old Testament the you see passages that He might have referred to. Some of the Reformed writers really drew out a lot of those riches.

What you say is true, but my point is that our gospel is more than what is in those two "nutshell" verses. Many of the writers, in Reformation times for instance, had no problem dwelling long and richly on what we have in this "good news".